Burn That Candle CD

Charline Arthur
Burn That Candle CD

Regarded by many pundits as 'the forgotten woman of Rockabilly', Charline Arthur was very much ahead of her time.
A discovery of the formidable Colonel Tom Parker, a couple of years before he managed Elvis Presley, she was by all contemporaneous accounts a controversial, memorable and hugely popular live performer.
She famously refused to play by the rules and often appeared onstage wearing pants, rather than the chintzy dresses worn by other female Country singers, and she sang sassy, suggestive songs - so much that she was censored onstage at the Grand Ole Opry.
This collection reissues the A&B sides of the sixteen singles that she cut between 1950 and 1956 for the Bullet, Imperial RCA Victor and Coin Records labels, and is almost her entire recorded legacy, including her regional hits Heartbreak Ahead, He Fiddled While I Burned, Waltzing and Someone's Used To Be alongside collectors' items like Soft Hearted Gal, Honey Bun and Burn That Candle.